"With books, I am promiscuous."
- Heather Sellers, Page After Page, Chapter 6: Sleeping With Books
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Here are two more quotes I captured from Chapter 6 (and that is all because I don't have the book in the office - though, I do have some captured quotes):
"Writer's thrive on a diet of poetry, essays, novels, reference books, literary magazines. There's a whole food pyramid out there!"
"I bathe with books and they bloom, like peonies."
She left out blogs ;-)
Was she meaning any particular order in that pyramid? What was at the base? Apex?
breal: It is a great quote.
tin-tin: Good for you.
gwapasila: thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment.
cavalock: aside from Page After Page I haven’t either. I may read her book Chapter After Chapter. Both these books are about writing.
beth: don't we all?
rennyba: thanks rennyba.
coffee fairy: we all have guilty pleasures we indulge in.